Ebook: Place Management and Crime: Ownership and Property Rights as a Source of Social Control
- Genre: Economy // Law
- Series: SpringerBriefs in Criminology: SpringerBriefs in Crime and Place
- Year: 2023
- Publisher: Springer
- City: Cham
- Language: English
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This brief describes the theory and evidence of a form of social control known as place management. Created by property owners, place management is an alternative to the two other domains of social control: formally created by the state and informally created by residents. It helps explain the high concentration of crime and disorder at a relatively small proportion of addresses and facilities. This volume examines the specifics of place management and extends it in three ways: to show how high crime places may radiate crime into their surroundings; to reveal networks of places that create crime hotspot spanning blocks; to demonstrate how networks of place managers influence crime throughout neighborhoods. Finally, it shows that the policy implications of place management extend far beyond the police and should include regulatory policies.